Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers (Juby Babu/Reuters) - Juby Babu / Reuters: *NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers* — NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut near...
See You In 2020

Russia’s anti-fascist fight, Palestine’s resistance, & how the KKE works to hinder both of them - *One of the biggest problems in today’s socialist politics is crude economism, as advanced by Greece’s KKE and its affiliated orgs. This is the problem ...
The Verge

Facebook is adding job listings, again - Meta, a company that is not shy about bolting new features onto its platforms, is bolting another new feature onto Facebook: jobs. This one is actually a t...
Raw Story

DOJ stuns CNN reporter saying 'quiet part out loud' about Trump ally - President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia is getting a lot of pushback from career prosecutors in the office be...
Al Jazeera English

President of Madagascar flees to ‘safe location’ amid deadly protests - Andry Rajoelina confirmed his departure on Monday, following reports he had been evacuated by a French aircraft.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information - Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas Several leading news organizations ...
Daily Dot

“They support the destruction of the U.S.”: 60-year Osmonds superfan renounces entire family over their Charlie Kirk tribute - [image: Left: Woman in glasses looking into the camera under text reading, "I'm Done with every single Osmond." Right: Donny Osmond performs in Hollywood...
The Hill

Farah Griffin praises Trump, Witkoff, Kushner for Mideast deal: 'I pray that this peace holds' - “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin on Monday praised President Trump, special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner for br...
The Greanville Post

IT’S THE OILCONOMY, STUPID—Part 2A: WEALTH, ECONOMICS, FINANCE, MONEY, DEBT and CURRENCY - EAB—Money used to be based on physical gold stored in bank vaults. Gold is NOT material wealth; it is a conventionally accepted proxy for the future delive...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Deadline Politics

Media Outlets, Ranging From The Atlantic To Newsmax, Refuse To Sign New Pentagon Press Policy - Media outlets ranging from The Atlantic to CNN to Newsmax have so far said that they do not plan for their correspondents to sign a new Pentagon press poli...
Texas Standard

Israeli security guard with family in Houston released from Hamas captivity - Eitan Avraham Mor, who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, was among 20 surviving hostages who were freed Monday. A Houston-based relative of Mor’s was...
Wolf Street

The Huge US Bond Market and the US Dollar Blow Off the “Debasement Trade” - The bond market has taken the opposite bet, and the dollar has strengthened.
Mediagazer

Politico is using SMS to send news updates that sound "personal and urgent" to a select group of lawmakers, staffers, and lobbyists working at the US Congress (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *Politico is using SMS to send news updates that sound “personal and urgent” to a select group of lawmakers, staffers, ...
OpEd News

Interpreting a BAV Election - The first thing an improved voting system should do is to produce outcomes that better reflect the views of voters, and we have shown in earlier articles t...
Mediaite

Chris Christie Accuses Trump of Using Justice Department Like a Mob Boss: ‘Executes Hits’ on Political Enemies - Ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accused President Trump of using the Justice Department like a mafia crime boss would — to execute "hits" against his e...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Political Wire

North Carolina GOP to Vote on New House Map - “North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced plans Monday to vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S. House district map, with a likely aim...
Houston Public Media

Three decades after 14-year-old girl’s murder, Houston police still seek leads and her family wants closure - Erica Garcia was raped and murdered in 1997. Houston Police Department detectives remain hopeful for leads in the cold case.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s No Kings 2.0 protest scheduled for this Saturday could break records … again - San Antonio will join more than 2,500 locations worldwide in holding another No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18 — a demonstration against President D...
CultureMap Houston

Texas-born tiki legend shines in new documentary with Houston screening - It seems like the 20th century phenomenon of tiki bars would have emerged organically, with no sole progenitor, but a quick online search always turns up t...
Courthouse News

San Mateo County Sheriff denied emergency request to block removal - The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on whether to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office after accusations of conflicts of int...
Church and State

Our Constitutional verities are vanishing along with chances for saving Planet Earth - Our Constitutional verities are vanishing under Trump, but their loss may prove to be irrelevant as extinction looms sharply ahead.
slacktivist

At least that’s what I’ve read - What's Franklin hiding? Plus various interfaith lights shining in the dark and some vintage VOL.
Salon.com

John Oliver slams CBS for putting Bari Weiss in charge - Calling her journalism “deeply misleading,” Oliver said Weiss risks politicizing one of America’s major newsrooms
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Mississippi's miraculous scores! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025* *Mississippi's children: *There was a time, for quite a few years, when we loved sifting through the reading and math scores f...
ArcaMax

They’re Calling it a ‘Hate-America’ Rally - You know Trump Republicans are worried when they slam a planned protest — more than a week before it occurs. Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson described th...
The AltWorld

Waiting on images of abject submission that don’t appear - Continued U.S. ‘dominance’ requires striking out in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia unexpectedly has […] The post Waiting o...
Axios

Trump, Zelensky to discuss Tomahawks for Ukraine at White House Friday - President Trump is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, two sources familiar with the planning told...
Independent Political Report

Green Candidate Lily Benavides Launches 21-County Write-In Strategy in New Jersey Governor’s Race - Green Party candidate Lily Benavides has announced a 21-county strategy to promote her write-in campaign for New Jersey governor, after being denied ball...
San Antonio Report

A peek inside Southwest Research Institute’s rare books collection - The rare and unique book collection boasts 250 books chronicling the history of science, engineering and mathematics at SwRI's Thomas Baker Slick Memorial ...
Mother Jones

Trump’s New Layoffs Hurt Disabled Kids - Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) received reduction-in-fo...
The Conversation

Supreme Court redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights law – and tilt the balance of power in Washington - A case being argued at the US Supreme Court could undo one of the last remaining protections for minority voters in a Civil Rights-era voting law.
The Texas Signal

Just How Weird Is Houston Heights - “The Heights used to be weird because there were a lot of artists, musicians, and other interesting people living there,” he said. “Now it’s weird because ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
World Socialist Web Site

Join the struggle for a socialist future! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship, and world war! - The contradictions that lead capitalism to these disasters also form the basis for social revolution. Workers and youth everywhere are looking for a way ou...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Bad Jacketing Katie Porter - Last week, California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter got the bad jacketing treatment after a snippy interview with CBS.
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again) - What is going around now is another cover up, another denial of what a lot of people on both sides call “the second Nakba,” the sin atop the original sin. ...
First Draft

The Anti-Woke Should Go Back To Bed - A bitter, angry movie about commoners daring to challenge the elite over sexual assault is not the morality tale its producers believe it is.
Undernews

Word - [image: A yellow-bordered white sign with black bold text stating Never forget: The Republicans voted against Social Security in the 1930s, against Medica...
Mondoweiss

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump in the Knesset on Monday, October 13 2025. (Photo: Haim Zach, GPO)]In a spe...
WhoWhatWhy

Can a Volcanic Island Show How Nature Works Without Human Interference? - [image: science, nature, environment, ecosystems. Iceland, volcanic eruption, Surtsey Island evolution] A Volcanic Island Erupted From the Sea in Iceland –...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Johnson's Great Society and the Power of Imaginative Policy by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Johnson's Great Society and the Power of Imaginative Policy* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 13, 2025* *Join me in revisiting President Lyndon...
Ballot Access News

Paul Rivera’s Analysis of Why Democrats Lost the 2024 Presidential Election Is Not Yet Finished - In July 2025, the Democratic National Committee commissioned a report on why the party lost the 2024 presidential election. The party chose Paul Rivera of ...
Sludge

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide - With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.
Angry Bear

New and improved! - Earlier this year, my wife traded her 2003 Pontiac Vibe (manual transmission, window cranks) for a 2024 Hyundai Elantra. The Elantra not only has electri...
SCOTUSblog

Alex Jones goes to the Supreme Court - Last week, conservative media personality Alex Jones filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause a lower-court judgmen...
Glasstire

Meadows Museum Announces Publication Award & Major Exhibition - The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, housing among the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside ...
Dissident Voice

Recruiting New Spies via Internet - It’s no secret that almost every state conducts intelligence both at home and abroad. However, if several decades ago this activity was in the sidelines,...
Project Censored

US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies - In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the st...
NPR's Health Shots

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows - Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.
Slate

He Coined the Word That Describes Why the Internet Sucks Right Now. His New Book Could Help Make It Better. - His newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.
Election Law Blog

Grateful to Manage ELB for 2 Weeks - Many thanks to Rick Hasen for inviting me to manage the Election Law Blog over the next two weeks. It’s an honor to help steward this indispensable forum...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
The Progressive Wing

10/13-10/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The shutdown continues…more news, videos, and of course, your comments after the jump.
Daily Cartoonist

Sundry Funnies Distractions - Forget that Friday the 13th comes on a Monday this month, there are other distractions. Like… John Reiner‘s use of a grease pencil on The Lockhorns was an ...
ProPublica

ProPublica Names Kenneth Morales as David Burnham-TRAC Data Fellow - ProPublica ProPublica has selected Kenneth Morales as the inaugural David Burnham-TRAC data fellow. In this two-year fellowship, Morales will work with ...
Discourse

Gaza Still Needs You - This fight is not over.
Second Nexus

People Share Bombshells Their Therapist Dropped That Totally Changed Their Perspective - I love therapy. If only I could afford it regularly. When I was consistent with my sessions, I learned so much. I learned about life as a whole and my...
The Week

Can Gaza momentum help end the war in Ukraine? - Zelenskyy’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles hints at ‘warming relations’ between Ukraine and US
Alternet

'It's a gamble': Trump opponents may have a new potent weapon —but will it work? - During Barack Obama's presidency, many Republicans — along with quite a few libertarians and independents — brutally mocked progressives on college campu...
The Root

DDG And Halle Bailey’s Custody Battle Laid Out in New Song and Black Twitter Responds - DDG releases song about custody battle with Halle Bailey, and Black Twitter is all over it. Read more...
Futurism

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut - Gooners, take your marks. The post OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut appeared first on Futurism.
El Paso Matters

Harmony El Paso’s Class of 2025 sees record class size decline from eighth-grade cohort - An El Paso charter school system’s most recent graduating class lost nearly a third of its students between middle school and their senior year. The pos...
Bonddad

Tabulations of state level reports indicates 228,000 initial claims, 1.938 million continuing claims last week - * - by New Deal democrat* Among the economic data that is not being reported due to the federal government shutdown are initial and continuing jobles...
Rewire

Louisiana Sues Food And Drug Administration To Stop Mailing of Abortion Medication - Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and 14 other Republican attorneys general have urged Congress to strike down state “shield” laws that have allowed...
Popular Resistance

From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style - The Law and Disorder radio program has immortalized selected recent interviews as it expands into print media with a new book, From the Flag to the Cross...
Democracy Now!

"We Survived the Night": Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History - To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member o...
Space City Weather

More Fall ‘lite’ weather this week, with the potential for some rain showers this weekend - In brief: In today’s post we provide more information about our forthcoming Fall Day Celebration, to which you’re invited to bring your dogs. We also discu...
Vox

What humans might learn from nature’s real-life zombies - Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them. She’s read up on the fungi that take ove...
Dorf on Law

For Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Classic on What and When to Celebrate - Today is what the federal government calls Columbus Day and what some states (like New York in virtue of a 2021 gubernatorial proclamation) and localitie...
Skeptophilia

The ghost forests - I recently read paleontologist Riley Black's lovely book *When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance*, which looks at the ...
The Smirking Chimp

They’re Calling It a “Hate America” Rally -
Debunking Christianity

Do You Know God? -
Crooked Media

Will SCOTUS Allow Conversion Therapy for Minors? - The post Will SCOTUS Allow Conversion Therapy for Minors? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Amanda Edwards - This week we will focus on the election we’ve been waiting for the longest, the special election in CD18 to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Rep. ...
Scheerpost.com

‘A Pretext to Take Over American Cities’: JD Vance Sparks Alarm With Comments on Insurrection Act - “The guardrails are gone,” warned Democratic political strategist David Axelrod.
American Prospect

Chicago Strikes Back, With an Assist from Republican Governors - A federal judge calls out the Trump administration’s “simply unreliable” portrait of the city, while a group of former governors deconstructs the constitut...
High Country News

What inspires Indigenous ballet dancer Jock Soto - The dancer seeks to preserve his legacy while educating others about his time on the biggest ballet stage. The post What inspires Indigenous ballet danc...
The Daily Poster

How Ticketmaster Made It Impossible To Sue Them - Your legal rights are being stripped away by the ticket company's new terms-of-use agreement.
Portside

Sunday Science: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Falling to Earth at an Alarming Rate - Sunday Science: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Falling to Earth at an Alarming Rate Ira Mon, 10/13/2025 - 03:02
Rallblog

Missing: Israel’s Humanity - The war in Gaza may be over, but the repercussions for the state of Israel have just begun. Reporters from the Western world, including the United States...
Counterpunch

The Defeat of Israel and the Rebirth of Palestinian Agency - For decades, the prevailing notion was that the 'solution' to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue ca...
jobsanger

We Would Do Well To Remember The Words Of Abraham Lincoln -
Informed Comment

Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good - If I must die, You must live To tell my story To sell my things To buy a piece of cloth And some strings…. – Refaat Alareer, Palestinian writer,...
Workers World

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on ceasefire agreement - [image: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on ceasefire agreement] Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces spokesperson Abu Khaled made the following st...
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
Antiwar.com

‘Free Marwan Barghouti’: The War Against Palestinian Democracy - If Palestinians could have a democratic election, the 66-year-old Barghouti, their charismatic leader in the West Bank prior to his imprisonment, would the...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Grist

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ - A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a reply to someone pushing back on calling the Trump administration fasci...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 12, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly ...
Reform Austin

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is Coming to Replace Wikipedia - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Elon Musk has announced the creation of a new AI-powered encyclopedia called Grokipedia, a proj...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Smash and Grab' Toons - Helpful context... • Trump 'border czar' Homan accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents • US offers up to $50k bonus for would-be ICE deportatio...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- for Halloween month - As the day approaches.....
Unlimited Hangout

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
Common Dreams

A Beacon Of Hope and Woke Bullshit - Citing the value of “keep(ing) the flame of democracy burning," the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado fo...
Progressive.org

‘The Alabama Solution’ Takes No Prisoners as Incarcerated Workers Struggle for Their Humanity - Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: October 2025 - My video game, Moon Garden Optimizer, just released a demo on Steam. If you’ve already tried previous versions, it’s not new. Otherwise… try it! Looking...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
ExChristian.Net

Bentham's "Not Paul, But Jesus" Revisited - By William Walter Kay BA JD JEREMY Bentham was born in 1748 unto a line of London lawyers. His father amassed a fortune flipping real estate. England’s yo...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Fascism - These examples show that authoritarian capitalism can coexist with a relatively modest ideological veneer, whereas authoritarian fascism embeds a deep, o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump - Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Continues - The Endgame Remains Unpredictable–Dangerously So BILL ASTORE OCT 08, 2025 Since the last time (July 19th) I wrote about the Russia-Ukraine War, perhaps th...
MintPress News

Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report - After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating evidence....
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Capital & Main

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive. - Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind. The post It’s Brown And Burns Your ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. ...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
NORML

Major Alcohol Producer Links Cannabis Legalization to Sales Decline - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Seeing the Forest

The Real AI Question: Who Benefits? - Here’s a different question about AI. Suppose it does what is promised, and does greatly increase productivity, and does bring all kinds of benefits. Who w...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
The NM Political Report

NM’s vaccine shake-up: Governor acts to set independent immunization standards amid CDC turmoil - [image: A bill that temporarily allows New Mexico to formulate its own immunization policy was signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. ] [image: ...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest for Economic Gain Is Like …. - This week’s quote is from scientist Edward O. Wilson: “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Fron the archives: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2' is the gayest horror movie you will ever see - *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2* is considered by many to be a very subversively gay horror movie. Of course when I watched it, I was surprised and pleas...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting - On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map - Earlier this week, Utah Republicans proposed a new House map that includes two new competitive seats. It is one of several that a judge will consider ahe...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
DeSmogBlog

Danielle Smith’s Pipeline Without a Proponent Is All Dollars and No Sense - “This is a test of whether Canada works as a country,” warned Alberta Premier Danielle Smith after she finally announced a proposal for a bitumen pipelin...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers’ Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
Two Party Opera

Dr. Feelgood For All - Read More
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

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LareDOS

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Campaign for America's Future

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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Consent Factory, Inc.

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The Socialist

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The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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Land Destroyer

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Free & Equal

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

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Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

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Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

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Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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